[Osiris]

This is of course a far better method of compressing the registry which is why I decided to write an article about NTREGOPT. Just run the software after downloading and installing it. It will automatically check and compress the registry displaying information about the reduction at the end of the process.

As you can see the size of the optimized registry is about 5 Megabytes smaller than the size of the unoptimized registry. The registry files have been replaced during the system boot which is far more comfortable than having to boot into DOS to give the restore commands manually.
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[vernong1992]

thats cool... registry compression.. when i get home i'll download that!!

[gurusan]

What are the benefits of doing this?

[gurusan]

Originally Posted by gurusan

What are the benefits of doing this?

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[vernong1992]

well compression has to do with space... so taking less space?

[Osiris]

Originally Posted by gurusan

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If you visited the website you would have found out this information yourself

Similar to Windows 9x/Me, the registry files in an NT-based system
can become fragmented over time, occupying more space on your hard
disk than necessary and decreasing overall performance. You should
use the NTREGOPT utility regularly, but especially after installing
or uninstalling a program, to minimize the size of the registry files
and optimize registry access.

The program works by recreating each registry hive "from scratch",
thus removing any slack space that may be left from previously
modified or deleted keys.

Note that the program does NOT change the contents of the registry in
any way, nor does it physically defrag the registry files on the drive
(as the PageDefrag program from SysInternals does). The optimization
done by NTREGOPT is simply compacting the registry hives to the
minimum size possible.